WILLIAM SPOONER, No. 379, STRAND; RICHARD GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND PROCURABLE, BY ORDER, OF ALL BOOKSELLERS. AGENT FOR DUBLIN, JOHN WISEHEART; EDINBURGH, J. MENZIES; M. DCCC. LIII. TO THE READER. ALBEIT WE ARE an avowed enemy of Fashion, yet do we vastly All we need say, on issuing a FOURTH VOLUME, lies in a nut- The Contents of this Volume speak for themselves. An NEW ROAD, HAMMERSMITH, January 2nd, 1854. WILLIAM KIDD. INDEX AND CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. Dardanelles, The, 254 Delicacy, "Extraordinary " Instance of, 192 Dog, The, 39, 41, 42, 107, 109, 168, 172, 234, Duration of Human Life, Averaged, 120 Earth, The, An Ocean of Melted Rock, 56 Earthquakes in the Tropics, 125 Auto-Biography of a Dog, 39, 107, 168, 234, 296, Echoes, Remarkable, 64, 249 England, Good by Compulsion, 245 England's National Failing, 32 English Climate, The, 254, 335 Engravings Copied by Iodine, 119 Autumnal Ramble, by "Our Editor," 209; Christ- mas, 281, 295, 301, 305, 320, 352; Clouds of Heaven, The, 260; Condescension, 81; Death, The, of Summer, 214; Death Viewed as Sleep, 17; Education of Women in England and America, 142; Essay on Good Taste, 68; Fashionable Weddings, 272; Fashionable Fol- lies, 273; First Oyster Eater, The, 95; Gen- tleness and its Power, 5; Golden Rules of Life, Hints to Fast Men, 22; Hospitals of London, 259; How to make Home "Happy," 221; Human Heart, The, 193; Journey of Life, The, 270; Little Children, 161; 'Little Things," 159, 319, 337; Loves and the Graces, 143; Man's Weak Point, 330; Musings by a Benedict, 7; Nature's Master- piece, the Mechanism of the Human Body, 65; Notes upon Notes, 129, 273; Our Mirror of the Months, 34, 102, 171, 232, 294, 350, 353; Our Moral Nature, 365; Past, Present, and Future, 321; Puffing Husbands and Patient Wives, 74; Study of Natural His- tory, 257; Summer, and more of its "Con- sequences," 26; Thoughts on a Few Drops of Water, 93; To-day and To-morrow, 197; Travelling at Home and Abroad, 179; What do we all Live for? 1; Wife, The, of a Literary Man, 131; Wives, Useful and Useless, 86; |